I know I had recommended the BIDS Helper for you before, but as a new version of this Visual Studio add – in just got out this Saturday with support for SQL Server 2008, I thought it's a great time to remind everybody they should check it out. Most of the features in this release are available only through their source code, which is there for you to compile and deploy yourself. My personal favorite feature would be the Non-Default Properties Report, which helps you track the settings in your...
I know this means I'm quite late writing about it, but I only came about to learn about this Visual Studio.Net add-in quite recently and I wanted to study it for a bit before writing about it. The BIDS Helper is an excellent extension to the BI Development Studio which comes with SQL Server 2005. Though my main uses for it are for the SSAS part of my BI project, the newly released version also has features for SSIS. Among other features for SSAS, the BIDS Helper enables you to: Validate aggregations...